Yeah, I found out about the open closed curve problem with lofting.  It showed up because the mouse waist is seriously tilted, and so you can't draw a straight line over just a waist section, the way you can with a human figure.

However, I also figured out that I could join the curves into a single curve before lofting.

I am going for more of a bell shape for the ballgown, but I just wanted to give your tutorial a run through and see where it took me.

I've only been playing with Rhino for about a week ... if that, so it's not so much that I'm having problems, it's just that I've never done it before, so it's the natural learning curve.  I had no idea you could "blend" curves.  I will try that out tonight too.

I've never done any modeling before except for with primitives in Bryce.  Your posts and have been a huge help.

And I'm really glad to know that I can loft sideways ... that's going to come in handy I can tell.

Could be worse, could be raining.